Wednesday, August 27, 2014

The Sushi Dress - Butterick 5748

Here's a quick and dirty post on a dress I made at the beginning of the summer. It's actually one of my favorites, because I absolutely adore the fabric. It's made from a quilting cotton I bought at JoAnn's sometime last year, and the pattern was my second attempt at Butterick 5748.

On this dress, I omitted the lining, used bias binding for the neckline and arms, and scooped the neckline another 5/8". The hem is serged and left alone (don't you love my couture techniques?), and I have continued with my use of railroad zips over invisible ones.

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My sweet "no flash" photo. Take that, Ansel Adams.

And the back, showcasing the best feature of the pattern; the lovely deep back.

Chicken Dance pose

The hem's even, I promise. Not only did I have a run of forgetting the flash, but I was also taking photos of my dresses after wearing them all day. Cotton tends to get a bit flat after sitting for hours. However, I'm not a fashion blogger (or really any kind of blogger) so my goal is to get pics as fast as possible and get them posted.

At some point I'll have to get a close up of just the fabric, because it's stunning. I centered the bodice to get as much of one complete dragon across the front as possible. Damn, that's pretty fabric.

Boom. Sewing post. I had another name for this dress, but then I started to have a hankering for sushi, and that's that. These dresses name themselves. Mmmmm. Sushi.